The Higher Education Academy and JISC are working in partnership to develop the HEFCE-funded Open Educational Resources (OER) programme, supporting UK higher education institutions in sharing their teaching and learning resources freely online across the world. Building on the foundations of a pilot study which took place between April 2009 and March 2010, a second phase of projects and activities are underway until August 2011.
Open Resources for Built Environment Education (ORBEE) plans to repurpose teaching, learning and research built environment education resources that are freely available online under an intellectual property licence. This permits their free use especially to address sector needs on ‘work place, work related or distance learning’. Consequently, by harnessing the knowledge capital of HEI-Industry engagement, a range of relevant re-calibrated open educational resources are to be provided.
Purpose and outcomes
The aim of this project is to encourage and enable the universal sharing of built environment educational resources that allows learners to study in an interesting and challenging way that best suits them. Key outcomes include:
- Analysing, re-purposing and creating selected materials for open access - To evaluate, extend and establish a range of existing and tailored learning materials in built environment education for wider consumption via open VLE.
- Encouraging and embedding positive ORBEE culture - To investigate attitudes of users to promote sharing and searching for open resources in built environment education and build evidence based approaches to encourage a positive cultural change.
For further information: http://orbee.pbworks.com